Category Archives: art show review

moca: first 30 years, and root beer

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: January 16, 2010
i suppose it’s pointless to complain about how hard it is to get a decent photo of a piece of art inside a museum, especially a museum with such drab, yellow lighting (not to mention using a cheap point and shoot canon, but oh well). art, like sex, is best experienced on [...]
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Huge crowd shows up to Quint Gallery

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: July 4, 2009
when you have an art show displaying 50 artists from the same town, you get a shitload of people at the opening. outside: streaming in: looking in: looking out: and when you’re the only artist out of fifty, who’s pieces were at eye level, to hang your piece 8 feet off the ground, nobody thinks to look up and see [...]
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louise bourgeois

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: January 19, 2009
  the louise bourgeois show has been up at the moca in l.a. for weeks now and i kept telling myself to go see it before it’s gone. last week i was reminded that the show was still up while talking about louise with a co-worker. when i realised that the show was going [...]
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ink pencil paint – reviewed

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: August 22, 2008
there’s a nice little review of the L street gallery show i was in over at Sezio. there’s not many people taking the time to review art shows in san diego. it’s nice to know there’s at least someone who cares. and speaking of the lonely few who care to report on the san dieo art [...]
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